Wow, Windy EC has an elongated 10 days donut over SEQ & WB , but unusually GFS has a huge donut over most of QLD.Glad we go the rain when we did. 41C max here today & expecting higher tomorrow.Grass looking yellowish already.

Kind of Stormwalker. Even though it's very muggy, dewpoints at ground level still aren't high enough (given the current high temps) for air parcels rising from the surface to become saturated at a sufficiently low height to stay warmer than the surrounding air (once an air parcel becomes saturated, it cools at a much slower rate than surrounding drier air).... so they don't rise much further.Even parcels trying to rise from higher levels in the atmosphere have trouble trying to keep rising because there's not enough moisture up there either for them to become saturated and stay more buoyant than the surrounding air (there are some inland areas which are closer to borderline today though).

Even when the afternoon seabreeze brings in extra moisture, it's quite shallow and the cap (layer of warmer air just above the ground) tries to prevent air parcels from rising through it.

Caught the edge of a storm early this evening. Included a nice, loud crack of thunder from a nearby strike. Breezy at times, not much rain in it. 1.0mm since 9am.

It was part of a line of high-based, low-precipitating storms (nowhere getting more than 7mm) that moved through areas of the MNC this afternoon/evening. Decent amount of lightning under the stronger cells.A warm and very humid day too. Dewpoints almost reaching 24 degrees in Port this afternoon.

Looking forward to the cool change tomorrow but other than that, the weather just sucks at the moment. Not sure why for the second year in a row that October has provided the goods and November for the most part has dried right out (I know it's only early but seriously, there looks to be next to nothing for the next week and a half - two weeks at least).